Meeting Minutes 8-29-11

Monday, August 29, 2011

8:00am

Attendance: Annie, Caryl, Maryann, Hayley, Karen L., Ralene, Karen G.,

(9:00am) Anita, Melissa

Minutes taken by Hayley

We need a historian!

Time conflict between playground safety and café expectations

• Can we switch first grade to Thursday and second grade to Friday?
• Can we piggy back on the café expectations schedule?
  • o Keep the same times, just switch days
  • Leave the cafeteria as though heading out to recess
  • Review playground safety
  • Teach/Review procedures for lining up to come in at the end of recess

*Hayley will make a new schedule with an overview for teachers. Copy on yellow paper and mark as REVISED

We need administration to speak for us at the first faculty meeting

• Require representation from each grade level/team
  • Hayley will make a sign up/attendance sheet for the committee
  • Representation can be a rotation (as long as they are still accountable for attendance)
  • Push for consistency and whole school participation
  • We will share several clip charts with the staff to show variations
  • Hayley will distribute “Making Better Choices” slips and make them available in the teachers’ room
  • Make sure everyone has the Chris Biffle five rules
    • o Karen G. will give her copy to Hayley to distribute

Spirit of Underhill Awards

• Annie will get more printer paper for the Awards
• We will set up a new bulletin board to display the award winners
  • o Photograph the students at the end of the assembly to post on the bulletin board
  • o Set up bulletin board for all first and second grade teachers to have a photo slot for their award winner
  • o Have the “historian” email photos and student names to the Banner

Sunshine

• Maryann and Caryl will provide staff with donation envelope
  • Suggested donation $20
  • Annie will ask Janet to keep track of donations

Karen Landsman will review Wiki management at the first faculty meeting

• Suggest teachers bring their laptops so that they can try it out
• Karen will upload the minutes from each meeting to the Wiki